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...host to the convention, Mayor Jordan took members to nearby Glendale, where members played on the 36-bell carillon of the Episcopal Sisters of the Transfiguration. His proudest moment came when his pupil, Sister Ruth Magdalene, a onetime missionary in China who has studied for only a year, put on the leather guards, pulled up her skirts a bit so that her feet could be freer for the heavy pedals, and rang out a pair of selections. Sister Ruth Magdalene was promptly voted into the guild...
...Favorite. It took three days for all the finalists to get their hearings in Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts. By the time judgment night rolled around, the crowd already had its favorite: 23-year-old Leon Fleisher of Manhattan, a pupil of the late Artur Schnabel. In the preliminary rounds Fleisher had drawn so much applause that the presiding judge had to ring a bell to silence the audience and get on with the contest. In the grand finale, Fleisher popped a piano string in the middle of the Brahms Concerto No. 1. But instead of blowing...
From the start, the Prince and Mrs. Vining got along. She had him as a pupil both in class and in private, and since she knew no Japanese, she had to think up some strange Occidental ways of teaching. She brought him the illustrated Book of Knowledge, acted out words for him, invented a tennis game to be played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg...
...Conant, "that education is preparation for the 'good life,' but neither the word 'good' nor the word 'life' is given any content. Or we are told [by John S. Brubacher] that the 'general aim' of education 'is only that of pupil growth.' But what kind of 'growth'? . . . Or we are told [by William Heard Kilpatrick] that education must assume 'increasing responsibility for participation in projecting ideas of social change.' But again we must ask: What kind of change and in what direction...
...pupils under five, there are hymns and simple prayers; later there are Scripture lessons and Bible stories. As the pupil grows older, he is led into the Old Testament and the life and teachings of Christ. Gradually, this simple beginning is expanded to include the whole fabric of Christianity...